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"Let us wait a little; I should be afraid to talk before so many. She is very beautiful, then." "You will laugh and call me extravagant, as others do, if I say what I think; so I will let you judge for yourself. See, your brother stands on tiptoe to peep at her. Now he goes in, and there he will stay. You do not like that, perhaps.
They gaze at one another in a fascinated manner for a few moments, and then Gaston removes his hand from the girl's shoulder with a sardonic laugh, and she buries her face in her hands with a stifled sob. 'So this is the end, he said, pointing to the river, and fixing his scintillating eyes on the girl; 'this is the end of our lives; for you the river for me the hangman.
I was face to face with twoscore Fellow Citizens, in clean blouses and extra frills. I must tell them what George Washington had done for their country for our country for me. I can laugh now at the impossible metres, the grandiose phrases, the verbose repetitions of my poem. Years ago I must have laughed at it, when I threw my only copy into the wastebasket.
She took it for the signal, and promptly delivered a mellow laugh that touched off the whole audience; and the explosion that followed was the triumph of the evening. I thought that that honest man Sawyer would choke himself; and as for the bludgeons, they performed like pile-drivers. But my poor little morsel of pathos was ruined.
On turning the corner of one of those houses on the beach of Deal which stand so close to the sea that in many cases they occupy common ground with the boats, Tommy found himself suddenly close to a group of men, one of whom, a very tall man, was addressing the others in an excited tone. "Sarve him right, the beggar," said another man, with a low laugh, "he's spoilt our game many a night.
And I lay there thinking how I had heard there was diphtheria over beyond the mountain and I would take a day or two to rest me and then I'd go over there and help. I laughed a little to myself, and I see now it wasn't a very pleasant kind of laugh, for I thought the people would begin to like me again because I was free to do for them.
"You're enough to deave a body. Who's coming, and where are they coming when they do come?" "They're coming here, Aunt Church, a lot of them girls like me big girls and little girls, old girls and young girls, bad girls and good girls; girls who'll laugh at you, and girls who'll respect you; some dressed badly, and some dressed fine.
"Pretty soft, pretty soft, I call it," he would say to the Captain, and the Captain would laugh and reply he was willing to change places. The Captain's return to the ranks of the "huskies" was celebrated with a program of water sports and a great clam-bake on the beach.
A man whose natural instincts are polite is surely a subject of sympathy and commiseration under such a pressure of difficulties as this. I breathed hard, but was unable to get out a single word of apology, till, with, a laugh and a bound, my fair partner regained her feet, and then she very good-naturedly assisted me in regaining mine. Mortified beyond measure, I conducted her to a seat.
"You don't mean to say that they come entirely by themselves?" he replied, looking more perplexed and astounded than I can describe. "Of course not," I said, breaking into a hearty laugh. "I have a partner on the other side, who will forward them to me every morning." "Then they do come of themselves, after they are once started?"
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